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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What should "git submodule summary" give before an initial 
	commit?
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:36:20 +0100
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Heya,

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 07:22, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I think "git reset HEAD" _should_ fail, but on the other hand, "git reset"
> and "git reset paths..." would be Ok before HEAD points at a commit.

Yes, that's what I came up with after sending my email, commands that
_default_ to HEAD as revision should instead default to an empty
commit when there is no HEAD yet. Perhaps something we can add to
parse_opt and then make sure that all commands we care about use that
feature?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier